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Wednesday 09/22/2021
CHRIS POWELL: 'Rescue' money isn't raining on special education kids Posted: 22 September 2021 [11:52 PM] While billions in federal "rescue" money are raining down on state government and municipal governments and Connecticut's members of Congress bestow new…
Monday 09/20/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Democracy won a world war; it can handle state's epidemic Posted: 20 September 2021 [09:13 PM] By CHRIS POWELL An argument being made for extending Governor Lamont's emergency powers to deal with the virus epidemic is that this would…
Friday 09/17/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Groucho knew how to solve UConn's football problem Posted: 17 September 2021 [08:56 PM] Having just been appointed president of Huxley College in the Marx Brothers' 1932 movie "Horse Feathers," Groucho's Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff quickly…
Wednesday 09/15/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Lamont's appeal on abortion won't lure Texas businesses Posted: 15 September 2021 [08:33 PM] While he tries to be a moderate Democratic governor and indeed is more moderate than his predecessor, Ned Lamont still feels obliged…
Monday 09/13/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Since epidemic is permanent, emergency powers should end Posted: 13 September 2021 [09:09 PM] Governor Lamont seems inclined to ask the General Assembly to extend his emergency powers again to deal with the virus epidemic when…
Friday 09/10/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Not all constitutional rights are secure in Connecticut Posted: 10 September 2021 [09:17 PM] By CHRIS POWELL Responding to the new law in Texas sharply restricting abortion, Connecticut Democratic State Chair Nancy DiNardo last week tried…
Thursday 09/09/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Managing UConn in secret; and race-baiting young kids Posted: 09 September 2021 [09:20 PM] Technically the University of Connecticut is a public institution, but as the Connecticut Mirror noted last week, you wouldn’t know it from…
Wednesday 09/08/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Minister's rebuke to blacks applies to all of Connecticut Posted: 08 September 2021 [09:25 PM] Who will be the first to call the Rev. Boise Kimber a racist? Kimber, head of the Greater New Haven Clergy Association,…
Tuesday 09/07/2021
ERIN STEWART: POCD plan provides blueprint for city's future development Posted: 07 September 2021 [11:59 AM] Mayor of New Britain I have lived in New Britain my entire life, and it is both my professional and personal goal…
Sunday 09/05/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Connecticut needs no bears; and who's paying the rent? Posted: 05 September 2021 [09:52 PM] When state legislators next put a survey in their "constituent service" mailings, it should include the question: How many bears will you…
Friday 09/03/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Hiring cops is getting harder but it's partly their own fault Posted: 03 September 2021 [09:02 PM] Police departments in Connecticut and throughout the country – especially in cities, like Bridgeport, but also in some suburbs, like Enfield –…
Wednesday 09/01/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Connecticut needs to learn from murdered teen's life Posted: 01 September 2021 [08:57 PM] By CHRIS POWELL When 14-year-old Tyshaun Hargrove was shot to death last week in New Haven, Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez called…
Monday 08/30/2021
Posted: 30 August 2021 [08:52 PM] As was demonstrated by the crude and disgraceful disruption of last week's back-to-school forum in Cheshire, many people in Connecticut are sick and tired of the virus epidemic and government's steps against it, however necessary they may have seemed. Consumed…
Friday 08/27/2021
CHRIS POWELL: 'Trust the science'? But whose? And Afghans fail to mobilize Posted: 27 August 2021 [10:08 PM] Science is wonderful. But it is not always settled. Sometimes the prevailing view in science is wrong, especially in medicine. For 2,000…
Wednesday 08/25/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Eversource repays hysteria; and the spirit of liberty fades Posted: 25 August 2021 [11:51 PM] Congratulations to Eversource Energy for scaring the daylights out of Connecticut residents upon the approach of Tropical Storm Henri, warning that two-thirds…
Monday 08/23/2021
CHRIS POWELL: A small win for Republicans; and no accountability for war Posted: 23 August 2021 [08:44 PM] Connecticut's Republicans have been down so long that they're entitled to construe almost anything as up. But they're making too much of…
Friday 08/20/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Who covered for Cuomo? And is choice no good now? Posted: 20 August 2021 [09:13 PM] Good for New York that it's getting a new governor as Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal and is succeeded…
Wednesday 08/18/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Census shows racism fades; and few Afghans ever cared Posted: 18 August 2021 [09:04 PM] How strange that Connecticut and the country are being condemned as "structurally" and "systemically" racist even as the latest U.S. census finds…
Monday 08/16/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Inflation shows new goodies for Connecticut aren't free Posted: 16 August 2021 [08:58 PM] Nearly every day a member of Connecticut's congressional delegation announces some major federal grant for a local capital project or civic organization,…
Monday 08/09/2021
ERIN STEWART: Mayor's golf tournament helps Christmas come early for community organizations Posted: 09 August 2021 [11:57 AM] There are countless reasons why those who are born and raised here love the City of New Britain, but one of the…
Friday 08/06/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Connecticut keeps ignoring fraud, failure in Bridgeport Posted: 06 August 2021 [09:04 PM] Connecticut's top elected officials quickly accommodated themselves to the disgrace of Joe Ganim's return to the mayoralty in Bridgeport in 2015 despite…
Wednesday 08/04/2021
CHRIS POWELL: State police integrity fails; state ignores voter fraud Posted: 04 August 2021 [08:15 PM] Accountability and integrity are slipping badly with the Connecticut state police. The agency has failed to complete an investigation of trooper misconduct…
Friday 07/30/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Lincoln and progress refute fans of 'critical race theory' Posted: 30 July 2021 [09:24 PM] Whatever "critical race theory" is, fears about it are easy to understand. It is seen as a mechanism for impugning the country…
Wednesday 07/28/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Juvenile crime forum avoids relevance, accountability Posted: 28 July 2021 [08:59 PM] Last week's well-attended forum on juvenile crime and justice, called by Glastonbury's Town Council, was illuminating, just not so much about juvenile…
Monday 07/26/2021
HEALTHY LIVING: How carotid artery disease can lead to stroke Posted: 26 July 2021 [08:48 PM] Nestled on both sides of your neck are two carotid arteries, which deliver oxygen-rich blood to the front of the brain. This…
CHRIS POWELL: Vaccine skeptics don't need Trump and Republican nuts Posted: 26 July 2021 [08:33 PM] Hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccination is becoming resistance and even hostility in Connecticut and throughout the country, news reports say. Blame is cast…
Friday 07/23/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Our own aspiring terrorists; and burying Henryk Gudelski Posted: 23 July 2021 [09:02 PM] Connecticut has its own aspiring terrorist and subversive group, and it's not the Ku Klux Klan, the Proud Boys, or even al-Qaida.…
Wednesday 07/21/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Little management remains; and Ned sounds Republican Posted: 21 July 2021 [09:01 PM] Good for Governor Lamont and the state legislators who approved the new state budget, which is providing 7.5% raises to about 1,700…
Monday 07/19/2021
CHRIS POWELL: State Employee unions help Lamont as they criticize him Posted: 19 July 2021 [09:05 PM] Connecticut's state employee unions may be rendering great service to Governor Lamont's probable campaign for re-election by complaining about him. This service…
Friday 07/16/2021
CHRIS POWELL: To end corporate welfare, cut taxes for all businesses Posted: 16 July 2021 [09:08 PM] At Governor Lamont's order, state government is reducing its direct subsidies to businesses coming into the state or expanding here – cash…
Wednesday 07/14/2021
MAYOR'S CORNER: Juvenile justice system needs adequate funding, overhaul Posted: 14 July 2021 [08:13 PM] Last month New Britain tragically lost one of its own at the hand of a juvenile criminal who was roaming free and…
CHRIS POWELL: Connecticut must examine causes of its social collapse Posted: 14 July 2021 [08:09 PM] "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life," Oscar Wilde wrote. But sometimes it's awful both ways. Many years ago an…
Monday 07/12/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Democrats strive to conceal failures of juvenile justice Posted: 12 July 2021 [07:04 PM] Fall out of bed and kill yourself in Connecticut and your state legislators well may introduce legislation memorializing you by purporting to…
Friday 07/09/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Colleges serve themselves; and expose juvenile courts Posted: 09 July 2021 [08:11 PM] Enrollment at Connecticut's community colleges has been collapsing, probably because the state's economy is weak and most students being admitted are unprepared…
Thursday 07/08/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Suffield skips the 'flag wars;' what's the pride of sex? Posted: 08 July 2021 [01:36 PM] Suffield has opted out of what First Selectwoman Melissa Mack calls the "flag wars," which are being fought over attempts to use…
Friday 07/02/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Might Connecticut care more about crime than P.C. trivia? Posted: 02 July 2021 [08:39 PM] By CHRIS POWELL Lately the Lamont administration has boasted about closing prisons in Connecticut even as crime has exploded. Of course the crime…
Wednesday 06/30/2021
CHRIS POWELL: How long will Gov. Lamont hold the line on state taxes? Posted: 30 June 2021 [08:52 PM] For months the far-left faction of the Democratic caucuses in the General Assembly, which controlled the legislature this year, sought to raise…
Monday 06/28/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Discipline for police amid secrecy, union clout Posted: 28 June 2021 [08:44 PM] Connecticut's most important journalism last week was the study produced by Bill Cummings of the Hearst newspapers about the weakness and secrecy…
Friday 06/25/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Exterminating their own rat; and state pays for exclusion Posted: 25 June 2021 [08:47 PM] Did someone try to get the General Assembly to pass a gasoline tax increase last week without the knowledge of the public…
Wednesday 06/23/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Zoning, Tweed controversies suggest new motto for state Posted: 23 June 2021 [08:59 PM] Municipal zoning that controversially excludes inexpensive housing in the suburbs isn't the only area where Connecticut long has allowed the local interest…
Monday 06/21/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Lamont celebrates celebrates pot bill with racial demagoguery Posted: 21 June 2021 [08:54 PM] Celebrating last week the General Assembly's passage of legislation to legalize marijuana and put state government into the drug business, Governor Lamont…
Saturday 06/19/2021
CHRIS POWELL: 'Rats' ride the 'implementer'; and 'presto-change-o:' equity! Posted: 19 June 2021 [12:25 AM] What a mockery of democracy has been made by the Democratic majority in the General Assembly with its legislation "implementing" the new…
Wednesday 06/16/2021
CHRIS POWELL: At state Capitol, old statue is offensive but not mayhem Posted: 16 June 2021 [08:21 PM] While bullets flew and people fell all around Hartford, some within sight of the state Capitol dome, the General Assembly deliberated its…
Monday 06/14/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Legalizing marijuana is easy; what's hard is the patronage Posted: 14 June 2021 [08:36 PM] Legalizing recreational marijuana in Connecticut is off until a special session of the General Assembly this week, with House Speaker Matt Ritter,…
Friday 06/11/2021
CHRIS POWELL: That 'transformational' budget really won't change much at all Posted: 11 June 2021 [09:47 PM] Some small good things were done by the session of the General Assembly just concluded, but the best things about the session…
Wednesday 06/09/2021
CHRIS POWELL: If Afghans want freedom, they'll have to fight for it Posted: 09 June 2021 [09:13 PM] Misconceived when it began 20 years ago, the American expedition to Afghanistan is being misunderstood as it comes to its predictable end…
Monday 06/07/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Stat's vaccination history disproves race mongering Posted: 07 June 2021 [09:04 PM] Now that the General Assembly, without any research, just a lot of pious posturing, has passed legislation declaring that racism is the…
Friday 06/04/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Connecticut has too much 'cultural humility' already Posted: 04 June 2021 [08:17 PM] While the General Assembly has never been known for political courage, the racial obsession that lately has been taking over there should…
Wednesday 06/02/2021
CHRIS POWELL: Don't hide voter database; and lock up chronic crooks Posted: 02 June 2021 [08:52 PM] By CHRIS POWELL Maybe last year's presidential election wasn't stolen, but it raised fair questions about the integrity of voting procedures, and…